Institut für Kunst und Architektur Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Wien www.akbild.ac.at/ika
INSTITUTE FOR ART AND ARCHITECTURE 20 JUNE 2022 7PM
Michael Hirschbichler & Guillaume Othenin-Girard, 2022
R211a Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
Michael Hirschbichler, Drecksarbeit / Dirty Work Amidst contaminated landscapes, covered with tenacious traces and endless claims and ideologies, with hopes, dreams, fears and stories, with waste, waste, waste, architecture – like all art and all life – is dirty work. Instead of adding new promises and toxins, would it not make sense to figure out what to do with all those that are already here and that won’t just go away?
Rather than starting from scratch, dirty work attends to accumulated pasts and attempted and aborted futures. It grapples with the leftovers, fragments, debris of things, ideologies and lives, with the facts and fictions that haunt every spot on Earth, with the many ghosts that abound and demand engagement.